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    Around three-in-ten Americans are very confident they could fact-check news about COVID-19
    Americans’ confidence in checking COVID-19 information aligns closely with their confidence in checking the accuracy of news stories broadly.
    Americans are following news about presidential candidates much less closely than COVID-19 news
    With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
    Americans Who Rely Most on White House for COVID-19 News More Likely to Downplay the Pandemic
    People in this group are most likely to say the outbreak has been made too big of a deal and journalists have been exaggerating the risks.
    44% of Americans say they talk about the coronavirus outbreak most or almost all of the time
    31% of U.S. adults say they discuss the outbreak with other people most of the time; another 13% say they talk about it almost all of the time.
    SXSW 2020 Online Session: Misinformation and the 2020 U.S. Election
    Amy Mitchell (Pew Research Center), Philip Howard (University of Oxford), Jane Lytvynenko (Buzzfeed News) and Lori Robertson (Factcheck.org) discuss misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak, and ahead of the 2020 presidential election, as part of SXSW 2020's virtual sessions.
    Americans’ Views of the News Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak
    More Americans hold positive than negative views of the news media’s COVID-19 coverage, but Republicans and Democrats remain starkly divided.
    Fewer Americans now say media exaggerated COVID-19 risks, but big partisan gaps persist
    The percentage who say journalists have exaggerated the risks of the outbreak has decreased notably in recent weeks.
    How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak
    The coronavirus outbreak has brought privacy and surveillance concerns to the forefront. Here's what Americans think about those issues.
    Most Americans say COVID-19 has changed news reporting, but many are unsure how it’s affected the industry
    The public’s sense about the pandemic's impact on the financial well-being of most news organizations is far from clear.
    5 charts on views of press freedom around the world
    To mark World Press Freedom Day, here are five charts that show how people globally see the freedom of the press.

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